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zestful

[zest-fuhl] / ˈzɛst fəl /












ADJECTIVE
sapid
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Actress Angela Lansbury who stormed the New York stage in 1966 as the zestful, eccentric star of “Mame” and solved endless murders as crime novelist in the TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” died at 96.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2022

Ami Okumura Jones and Mei Mac, both adults, play the girls with a zestful appetite for experience that never turns cloying, and Dai Tabuchi is infinitely touching as their kindly father.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022

Maggy Hurchalla, 81, a zestful and adventuresome environmentalist who carved a reputation independent from her trailblazing sister, Janet Reno, the first female U.S. attorney general, died Feb. 19 at her home in Stuart, Florida.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2022

It follows on the awkwardly zestful Biennial of 2017, which, having been assembled, by and large, before the 2016 national election, seemed pointed toward a future that was abruptly kaput.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

Upon these preparations the mate smiled pleasantly, and throwing off his shirt and girding his loins with his braces, he bent over and with much zestful splashing began his ablutions.

From The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)